remember: you are both the journey and the destination. how you travel and arrive to yourself will vary as the seconds and succession of seconds that count their way up to years find their rhythm along the way. keep your internal compass calibrated to compassion. you will need to extend kindness to yourself as often as you hold water to your lips. acknowledge your thirst. drink to satisfaction. embrace your aching with the same enthusiasm as you do your achievements. duality exists. not as an option. but as a constant. the mode of transportation to your transformation may be be slower than you expect. it may, at other times, introduce you to a version of yourself more quickly than you would’ve liked. cut an extra set of keys for evolution. the person glancing at the mirror on the way out can, at any moment, differ than the one who comes home in the evening.